Awf Zaher

Awf Zaher (14 April 1985-31 October 2016), also known as Abu Abbas al-Iraqi, was an Islamic State commander during the Iraqi Civil War.

Biography
Awf Zaher was born in Kirkuk, Ba'athist Iraq to a Sunni Muslim Arab family, and he had experience as an insurgent during the Iraq War, fighting against the United States and the Iraqi government. Zaher would later become an Islamic State commander, and he helped in importing foreign fighters to assist the newly-declared caliphate. On 31 October 2016, he was killed in a US Air Force airstrike on Bartella, Nineveh Governorate during the battle for Mosul.